Coal has a shit ton of externalities that are not subsidies of the kind that would be captured in that article. Also FWIW, the Daily Caller (blech) says the subsidies are only 326 times Coal's subsidies. That number should continue to drop as technology advances. But, if renewable turns out to be unsustainable, then the coal will still be there, and 5000 guys with the right equipment will be able to mine enough to satisfy the energy needs of the country, including the underwater gardens of Maralago.
Samsung first considered setting up shop in the United States about three years ago, the company said, and started talks with South Carolina last fall. The firm said it picked Newberry County for its workforce, transportation infrastructure — the plant is 150 miles from the Port of Charleston — and “commitment to public-private partnerships.”
Energy efficiency standards are an interstate problem, because pollution is an interstate problem. Money may flow into the state with the least regulation, but pollution will certainly seep out.
Also, slavery was not eliminated by letting the states do what they want, actually a very strong central government had to do that.
Very, very few people who claimed that Comey was a scoundrel were also saying that he needed to be fired--because they know that right now it is scoundrels all the way down. It is worth noting that Trump praised Comey as "gutsy" when he did the exact thing for which Trump fired him. So why the sudden firing? As our paid commentariat used to ask: cui bono?
I like to think that Putin told Tump to mix things up to distract from the obvious, failed (and still denied by many here) Russian attempt Putin-up the French election....it's the romantic in me.
Your sig belies your pessimistic attitude. To say that:
there are way to many alternate realities floating around with their on version of facts and truth these days. The EPA has been awash in political power and has participated in it's own demise by allowing its regulatory power to be used for furthering a political ideology, even when the facts and environmental benefits may be in dispute
is to say that the natural world is inherently unknowable and that regulatory power should not be exercised unless there was complete consensus among (nearly?) all the infinite Earths--that is to say, never.
Science works. Temperature, lead in water, and the existence/extinction of species can all be observed and acted upon.
Science is only a wedge issue because Republicans have to pander to several ascientific alternate reality constituancies: creationists, AGW deniers, tobacco/cancer causation deniers, Egyptian pyramids were grain silo-boosters, etc.
Such shaky hands on the levers of power is indeed cause for pessimism, but your alternate pessimism isn't helping.
Schools are managed at the local level. Whether they are better off depends on whether or not you live in Kansas.
Regardless, nutrition is reasonably well understood and not something for which we need 50 laboratories of ideas. Something like 0% of American kids are sodium deficient and my fingers are too fat to google what percent are obese.
Regarding the SNA's preference not to have the "food czar" present an award and the SNA's (very related) preference for the status quo ante:
Nineteen former SNA presidents wrote a letter of dissent and several expressed worry that the food industry was unduly influencing the association’s position, for which it was aggressively lobbying on Capitol Hill — moves that led the White House to believe that most school nutrition leaders are on its team and agree with the changes.
It is not surprising that this was modded up on Slashdot, but it is unfortunate—as is the fact that you don't know what "inherent" means because you almost redeem yourself with:
They are more likely to be poor, to have less stability, and to default.
Economic circumstance is not inherent is it? So it isn't inherent is it?
You got confused, and then a bunch of confused people modded you up because what you said fit their prejudices and lazy correlation=causation thinking.
And of course the article is about computers making the exact same mistake—and the people getting modded up are the ones saying that there is no mistake!
Because this is modded +5 insightful, I'll point out that it is incorrect. If the photographer refused to comply with a subpoena he could be jailed for contempt, and (I am guessing) a search warrant issued. But there is no suggestion that the computers or storage were the instrumentality of the crime, so even assuming corrupt police civil, forfeiture is not the path of least resistance for them to get what they want.
Of course, it seems that the police chose not to issue a production order in this case, so the path of least resistance is not always chosen.
I've never really been comfortable with liberal politicians implementing their most liberal policies in the last days of their administration. It reeks of a stunt. But "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose," and there will be no negative political consequences if you are leaving the job, so you may as well put the best policies in place, force the other side to expend political capital reversing it, and see what sticks.
I don't think so. I read a bug/wishlist thread on that issue a while ago and my impression was that it is a wontfix. I started using activities last week and it is less awful than it once was.
I still prefer KDE to everything else out there.
If people don't understand something to be inconvenient, then it isn't.
Maybe it is the aversion to non-vinyl physical media that is irrational. I prefer the one-time chore of ripping the disc to the lifetime chore of maintaining the same vendor (as with streaming). I actually got a CD shipped from Amazon, with auto rip, for a penny less than the mp3 album.
People are literally saying "I'll give you a little more money, in order to receive nothing."
"You could just as easily say that GW has prevented several massive weather disasters we will never know about." If that is your argument then I applaud your candor. At least we've moved from denial to salesmanship.
One problem with this sales pitch is that our sense of the norm is based on how things have been in recorded history. We need to remind people that permafrost is not actually permanent (false advertising--SAD); that coral reefs are really just layers upon layers of skeletons (gross--NOT NEAR MY PROPERTIES); and that for every unusually large hurricane that kills people, we may well have two delightfully mild winters (grill the worlds best steaks outdoors in December--LIVE THE DREAM).
People have always feared law enforcement. The FBI's reputation has little (if anything) to do with it. The ransomers just just as easily have said INTERPOL, except that too few people have heard of them.
I think you are reading an awful lot into my statement that a larger Navy would not have prevented the Russian meddling. I don't see anything bringing us close to a MAD trigger--unless the Donald really thinks tactical nukes are OK. Also, you are being pessimistic about Cuba (once we scrape together bullet money).
Russia is still not an existential threat to anyone but her former client states. This isn't a problem that Romney's larger Navy would have solved (and I'm surprised that Russian nationals and domestic rightists are so offended by this throwaway zinger 4 years later). But in retrospect, Obama underestimated Russia's guile. Rather than do catastrophic harm to the United States, Russia (like Al Queda) has done minor harm that led the United States do major harm to itself (the Iraq war, Trump).
Hey Comrad!
The plane was about 70 miles from some islands over which China has a dubious claim.
For that matter, I have no doubt that foreign intelligence services have all sorts of ears aimed at us. Hell, in the US the Chinese government could just buy land and operate a SigInt business! Unfortunately, China bars foreign investors from buying land (among other things) so the U.S. has to fly planes in the middle of nowhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I heard that the crew was unable to destroy most of the sensitive electronics onboard. Ditching the electronics would likely be pretty difficult unless it was designed for easy disassembly for the application of hammers and etching acid.
As people may recall, the Chinese fighter jet was harassing an unarmed spy plane flying over international waters when the fighter pilot overestimated his skill and/or the distance between the two planes.
The current incident is more bold in that it was intended to be an international incident, while the 2001 collision became an international incident at the moment of impact.
It is unfortunate that Democrats have to clean up Trump's messes before he even takes office.
Taking Uber's statement at face value: no permitting is necessary, and the vehicles are safe enough to risk other people's lives on. Therefore the only problem is getting a fleet of vehicles to replace their current uppity drivers.
If Uber wasn't BSing, then there is no reason it would take years because the ROI for autonomous vehicles is pretty quick.
If an autonomous vehicle costs $100k and is somehow valueless after 5 years, then Uber needs to make $20k more per vehicle per year to break even. I'm sure that drivers take home more than $20k a year. Therefore the investment will break even. Plus, Uber can run these things 16 hours a day (allow 8 for charging, fueling, cleaning) 353 days a year (allow 1day/mo for maintenance): that is, more than a human driver, so Uber will come out ahead.
Yes I ignored fuel and maintenance costs. No, it doesn't make a difference.
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Coal has a shit ton of externalities that are not subsidies of the kind that would be captured in that article. Also FWIW, the Daily Caller (blech) says the subsidies are only 326 times Coal's subsidies. That number should continue to drop as technology advances. But, if renewable turns out to be unsustainable, then the coal will still be there, and 5000 guys with the right equipment will be able to mine enough to satisfy the energy needs of the country, including the underwater gardens of Maralago.
However, that is not what TFA asserts.
Samsung first considered setting up shop in the United States about three years ago, the company said, and started talks with South Carolina last fall. The firm said it picked Newberry County for its workforce, transportation infrastructure — the plant is 150 miles from the Port of Charleston — and “commitment to public-private partnerships.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Energy efficiency standards are an interstate problem, because pollution is an interstate problem. Money may flow into the state with the least regulation, but pollution will certainly seep out.
Also, slavery was not eliminated by letting the states do what they want, actually a very strong central government had to do that.
What modern civilizations were you studying?
Very, very few people who claimed that Comey was a scoundrel were also saying that he needed to be fired--because they know that right now it is scoundrels all the way down. It is worth noting that Trump praised Comey as "gutsy" when he did the exact thing for which Trump fired him. So why the sudden firing? As our paid commentariat used to ask: cui bono?
I like to think that Putin told Tump to mix things up to distract from the obvious, failed (and still denied by many here) Russian attempt Putin-up the French election....it's the romantic in me.
there are way to many alternate realities floating around with their on version of facts and truth these days. The EPA has been awash in political power and has participated in it's own demise by allowing its regulatory power to be used for furthering a political ideology, even when the facts and environmental benefits may be in dispute
is to say that the natural world is inherently unknowable and that regulatory power should not be exercised unless there was complete consensus among (nearly?) all the infinite Earths--that is to say, never.
Science works. Temperature, lead in water, and the existence/extinction of species can all be observed and acted upon.
Science is only a wedge issue because Republicans have to pander to several ascientific alternate reality constituancies: creationists, AGW deniers, tobacco/cancer causation deniers, Egyptian pyramids were grain silo-boosters, etc.
Such shaky hands on the levers of power is indeed cause for pessimism, but your alternate pessimism isn't helping.
Schools are managed at the local level. Whether they are better off depends on whether or not you live in Kansas.
Regardless, nutrition is reasonably well understood and not something for which we need 50 laboratories of ideas. Something like 0% of American kids are sodium deficient and my fingers are too fat to google what percent are obese.
Regarding the SNA's preference not to have the "food czar" present an award and the SNA's (very related) preference for the status quo ante:
Nineteen former SNA presidents wrote a letter of dissent and several expressed worry that the food industry was unduly influencing the association’s position, for which it was aggressively lobbying on Capitol Hill — moves that led the White House to believe that most school nutrition leaders are on its team and agree with the changes.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/white-house-school-nutrition-association-108874
But there is no denying that Trump is, as the kids say, salty.
They are more likely to be poor, to have less stability, and to default.
Economic circumstance is not inherent is it? So it isn't inherent is it? You got confused, and then a bunch of confused people modded you up because what you said fit their prejudices and lazy correlation=causation thinking.
And of course the article is about computers making the exact same mistake—and the people getting modded up are the ones saying that there is no mistake!
Because this is modded +5 insightful, I'll point out that it is incorrect. If the photographer refused to comply with a subpoena he could be jailed for contempt, and (I am guessing) a search warrant issued. But there is no suggestion that the computers or storage were the instrumentality of the crime, so even assuming corrupt police civil, forfeiture is not the path of least resistance for them to get what they want. Of course, it seems that the police chose not to issue a production order in this case, so the path of least resistance is not always chosen.
The answer now is pretty damn obvious. Check back in 4 years, though.
I've never really been comfortable with liberal politicians implementing their most liberal policies in the last days of their administration. It reeks of a stunt. But "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose," and there will be no negative political consequences if you are leaving the job, so you may as well put the best policies in place, force the other side to expend political capital reversing it, and see what sticks.
I don't think so. I read a bug/wishlist thread on that issue a while ago and my impression was that it is a wontfix. I started using activities last week and it is less awful than it once was. I still prefer KDE to everything else out there.
The key is to wait sincerely.
This has a pretty good case for Manning: https://lawfareblog.com/obama-...
If people don't understand something to be inconvenient, then it isn't.
Maybe it is the aversion to non-vinyl physical media that is irrational. I prefer the one-time chore of ripping the disc to the lifetime chore of maintaining the same vendor (as with streaming). I actually got a CD shipped from Amazon, with auto rip, for a penny less than the mp3 album.
People are literally saying "I'll give you a little more money, in order to receive nothing."
"You could just as easily say that GW has prevented several massive weather disasters we will never know about." If that is your argument then I applaud your candor. At least we've moved from denial to salesmanship.
One problem with this sales pitch is that our sense of the norm is based on how things have been in recorded history. We need to remind people that permafrost is not actually permanent (false advertising--SAD); that coral reefs are really just layers upon layers of skeletons (gross--NOT NEAR MY PROPERTIES); and that for every unusually large hurricane that kills people, we may well have two delightfully mild winters (grill the worlds best steaks outdoors in December--LIVE THE DREAM).
ABORIGINES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
It will work out if the Taxis are spherical.
People have always feared law enforcement. The FBI's reputation has little (if anything) to do with it. The ransomers just just as easily have said INTERPOL, except that too few people have heard of them.
I think you are reading an awful lot into my statement that a larger Navy would not have prevented the Russian meddling. I don't see anything bringing us close to a MAD trigger--unless the Donald really thinks tactical nukes are OK. Also, you are being pessimistic about Cuba (once we scrape together bullet money).
Russia is still not an existential threat to anyone but her former client states. This isn't a problem that Romney's larger Navy would have solved (and I'm surprised that Russian nationals and domestic rightists are so offended by this throwaway zinger 4 years later). But in retrospect, Obama underestimated Russia's guile. Rather than do catastrophic harm to the United States, Russia (like Al Queda) has done minor harm that led the United States do major harm to itself (the Iraq war, Trump).
I will not believe this is true until Trump says it isn't a big deal.
Hey Comrad! The plane was about 70 miles from some islands over which China has a dubious claim. For that matter, I have no doubt that foreign intelligence services have all sorts of ears aimed at us. Hell, in the US the Chinese government could just buy land and operate a SigInt business! Unfortunately, China bars foreign investors from buying land (among other things) so the U.S. has to fly planes in the middle of nowhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I heard that the crew was unable to destroy most of the sensitive electronics onboard. Ditching the electronics would likely be pretty difficult unless it was designed for easy disassembly for the application of hammers and etching acid.
As people may recall, the Chinese fighter jet was harassing an unarmed spy plane flying over international waters when the fighter pilot overestimated his skill and/or the distance between the two planes.
The current incident is more bold in that it was intended to be an international incident, while the 2001 collision became an international incident at the moment of impact.
It is unfortunate that Democrats have to clean up Trump's messes before he even takes office.
If Uber wasn't BSing, then there is no reason it would take years because the ROI for autonomous vehicles is pretty quick.
If an autonomous vehicle costs $100k and is somehow valueless after 5 years, then Uber needs to make $20k more per vehicle per year to break even. I'm sure that drivers take home more than $20k a year. Therefore the investment will break even. Plus, Uber can run these things 16 hours a day (allow 8 for charging, fueling, cleaning) 353 days a year (allow 1day/mo for maintenance): that is, more than a human driver, so Uber will come out ahead.
Yes I ignored fuel and maintenance costs. No, it doesn't make a difference.